Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Megan Marshall has written a new book on Neustadt Prize laureate Elizabeth Bishop. The book, titledElizabeth Bishop: A Miracle for Breakfast, focuses on Bishop’s devotion to poetry.

In this essay, Porochista Khakpour writes about her struggle to survive early in her career as a novelist.

Yoss’s book Super Extra Grande, translated by David Frye, has been nominated for the 2017 Philip K. Dick Award. The Cuban writer’s work will also be appearing in the dystopian literature feature in the upcoming issue of WLT.

Mestizos Come Home!, by WLT executive director Robert Con Davis-Undiano, examines Mexican American identity and is now available for preorder on Amazon.

In this New York Times interview, Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses what his postelection reading list looks like, when and where he reads, and what type of reader he was a child.

Authors Jamaica Kincaid and A. B. Yehoshua were named laureates of the international Dan David Prize in literature. The prize, headquartered at Tel Aviv University, is worth $1 million US dollars.

It’s been reported that the Trump administration is likely to propose budget cuts to the National Endowment for the Arts, an important source of institutional support for the nonprofit literary field (WLT most recently received an NEA ArtWorks grant for our photography issue in 2013). Sign up for LitNet Action Alerts to join in helping protect the NEA.

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Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale is the latest in the genre to hit the Amazon best-seller list.